Trump has 12:15 Meltdown after Historic Defeat

Summary

The MeidasTouch Podcast: "Trump has 12:15 Meltdown after Historic Defeat"

Date: June 18, 2026
Hosts: Ben, Brett, and Jordy Meiselas (focus on Ben for this episode)

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Episode Overview

This episode of the MeidasTouch Podcast centers on Donald Trump’s unprecedented, erratic behavior in the wake of a significant diplomatic and political defeat. The brothers, led by Ben, break down Trump’s 12:15am social media meltdown while returning from France after the G7 summit—an event marked by humiliation, controversial decisions (notably, an Iranian MoU signed in Farsi), and global economic anxiety. Through their signature mix of humor and incisive commentary, the Meiselas brothers highlight the implications of Trump’s actions for American democracy, international relationships, and his own growing instability on the world stage.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Trump’s 12:15am Meltdown on Social Media

• Trump’s Posts: Ben reads out Trump’s incoherent late-night posts, filled with grandiose comparisons to historical figures like Alexander the Great, Caesar, Genghis Khan, Napoleon, Hitler, Stalin, and Mao.
• Quote (Ben, 02:32):

  "This is what he's posting at 12:15am as he's humiliated and defeated on the world stage... That's who he's comparing himself to at 12:15am."

• Analysis: The brothers suggest this behavior is symptomatic of desperation and psychological distress following international defeat.

2. Odd Public Interactions and Posts

• Trump Compliments World Leaders: Ben points out Trump's repeated, awkward compliments about the appearance of other leaders, such as Egypt's el-Sisi, India’s Modi, and the UAE president.
• Bizarre Posts: Trump shares a shirtless photo of a man named Tyrus, adding to the surreal spectacle described by the hosts.
• Ben, mocking Trump, 03:25:

  "Did you see him talk to Egyptian President El Sisi? 'How handsome and good looking you are and I love staying in the hotel room with you.'"

3. False and Revisionist Claims about U.S. Policy and Economy

• Semiconductor Industry Rant: Trump claims credit for bringing semiconductor manufacturing back to the U.S., despite the CHIPS Act being legislation from Biden’s presidency.
• Ben’s Correction (04:12):

  "Former President Biden developed the CHIPS act... You've irreparably harmed that by attacking the CHIPS act and by also imposing tariffs."

4. Speculative Attacks on Kamala Harris

• Trump’s ‘What If’ Post: Trump fantasizes about a U.S. ruled by Kamala Harris, forecasting "millions more illegals," "reparations," and "gasoline at $10 per gallon."
• Ben’s Rebuttal (05:40):

  "If former Vice President Kamala Harris won, we would probably have a booming manufacturing job market right now... She would have had a compassionate immigrant policy..."

5. Catastrophic Diplomacy: The Iran MoU

• Signing the MoU in Farsi: Trump’s humiliating moment; the agreement with Iran is signed in Farsi—presented as both symbolic and operational surrender.
• Ben (07:10):

  "Donald Trump signed the agreement in Farsi... I actually think that signing this surrender was the only deal—You fix, you break it, you fix it... We need to focus on America."

6. G7 Recap & Trump Team Spin

• Susie Wiles’ Tone-Deaf Posts: Trump’s Chief of Staff posts giddy messages recalling the G7 as a ‘huge success,’ likened to a 'Carnival cruise' by Ben.
• Mockery of Versailles Dinner: Pointing out the bizarre choice for Trump’s celebratory event—the same location Germany surrendered in 1919.

7. Reactions from Trump’s Inner Circle and the Republican Party

• Marco Rubio's Visible Discomfort: The hosts highlight Rubio’s face during the event, showing he grasped the gravity of the situation.
• Audio Clip (10:15):

  "If it works out, I'm going to take the credit. If it doesn't work out, I'm blaming JD..."

• Trump’s Admission of Weakness: Trump confesses he was ‘checkmated’ and claims the deal averted global depression.
• Quote (Ben, 10:26):

  "Donald Trump admitted before leaving that he was checkmated."

8. Implications for the Global Economy

• Trump acknowledges the threat of a looming recession and claims vindication for actions that disappointed allies and market participants.
• Trump Clip (11:01):

  "Every time we talked about the possibility of peace, the stock market shot up... The stock market is more brilliant than anybody there is, including the people on this stage other than me, of course."

• Ben’s Satirical Commentary: Mixes historical references with mockery about Trump’s obsession with gold palaces and 'Versailles fantasy.'

9. International Perception of U.S. Weakness

• Ben (12:50):

  "Most destructive and weak American foreign policy in history—surrender to the Taliban, surrender to Iran, bend the knee to Russia and China, attack NATO, weaken alliances... he isn’t a builder, he is a destroyer."

• Examination of Trump’s legacy—not as a dealmaker, but as a contract breaker and damage to U.S. honor.

10. Contrast with Trump Family Narrative

• Don Jr. and the ‘Loser’ Rhetoric: Reviewing Don Jr’s old posts and his misplaced toughness, critiqued by Ben for hypocrisy and family failure.

11. Democratic Response: Senator Jon Ossoff

• Statement from Ossoff (16:17):

  "The President has been humiliated on the world stage, and many Americans are increasingly concerned about his stability and his capacity in the office."

• Ben (16:39):

  "Deeply distressing to Americans... to see a president so incompetent and so incapable attempting and failing to represent the nation internationally."

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• Ben (02:32):

  "This is what he's posting at 12:15am as he's humiliated and defeated on the world stage..."

• Ben (05:40):

  "If former Vice President Kamala Harris won, we would probably have a booming manufacturing job market right now..."

• Ben (07:10):

  "Donald Trump signed the agreement in Farsi... We need to focus on America."

• Ben (12:50):

  "Most destructive and weak American foreign policy in history..."

• Ossoff (16:17):

  "The President has been humiliated on the world stage, and many Americans are increasingly concerned about his stability and his capacity in the office."

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Important Segment Timestamps

• [02:30] Trump’s 12:15am Social Media Meltdown
• [04:12] Fact-check and critique of Trump’s semiconductor claims
• [05:40] Kamala Harris alternate history/Trump’s paranoia
• [07:10] Iran Memorandum of Understanding signed in Farsi
• [09:40] Susie Wiles' bizarre G7 “success” statement and Carnival cruise mockery
• [10:15] Audio clip: GOP reactions, Rubio’s discomfort
• [11:01] Trump’s admission that MoU was needed to avoid global depression
• [12:46] Trump’s odd farewell at Versailles; further mockery and analysis
• [16:17] Senator Ossoff’s post-G7 reaction: national embarrassment

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Summary Flow & Tone

The episode maintains a tone that is sharp, satirical, and emotionally charged, blending serious political analysis with humorous takes—reflecting the hosts’ commitment to both entertainment and advocacy for democracy. The brothers’ unique banter works to both entertain listeners and underline the seriousness of Trump’s behavior and its implications for America’s standing in the world.

For listeners who missed the episode:
You’ll get a vivid sense of Trump’s unravelling after a major defeat, the surreal atmosphere at the G7, and the inability of his team and party to mask the aura of humiliation and chaos now dogging the White House. The podcast serves as both political critique and darkly humorous chronicle of a historic low point in U.S. leadership.

Transcript

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[Ben]

Donald Trump is having a psychotic meltdown at 12:15am in the morning as he's heading back from France to the United States. You take a look at it, post after post, some of the most deranged stuff he's posting from someone who he says historian Dave King. This is what he's posting at 12:15am Donald Trump is without question the most powerful man that the planet has ever known by a long way. Historically, people were characterized by brutal conquest and fear that they instilled in populations like Alexander the Great, Caesars, Genghis Khan, Attila the Hun, Napoleon, Hitler, Stalin, Mao. That's who he's comparing himself to at 12:15am Then he goes on to say the overwhelming difference between each of the above when compared to Trump is their lack of global reach. Like Alexander the Great and the Caesars were confined to the Mediterranean and small parts of North Africa, Hitler repeated Napoleon's mistake in Russia. This is what Trump was posting at 12:15am as he was humiliated and defeated on the world stage by signing the Memorandum of Understanding after getting involved in this catastrophic war in Iran with Netanyahu. Here's what Donald Trump posts right after whatever the hell that was that I just read. He posts this some guy named Tyrus with his shirt off. What in the world also was going on with Donald Trump? Did you see him talk to Egyptian President El Sisi? How handsome and good looking you are and I love staying in the hotel room with you. Did you see him talk to Prime Minister Modi and say you're so good looking and nice and so handsome. You see what he was saying to the reporter when he was with the president of the uae? Oh, he's such a good looking guy. He's so handsome. He's so good looking. And that's what Donald Trump's been saying all over again. By the way, here's what he's also posting after posting a short shirtless photo of a guy named Angus. My gosh, I don't even want to. Okay more posts. At 12:15am he goes freed us hostage. President Trump is the greatest commander in chief ever. Then he posts this the technology the world relies on was invented in America. We all remember intel inside Stupid presidents took our economy for granted and let Taiwan and others steal our semiconductor factories. They forgot to protect our industries with tariffs when I won my second term. Third, actually, it was clear America needed its semiconductor industry to come back. We design everything, but we need to build here. I mean, you're such a fraud. Former President Biden developed the CHIPS act, which was an actual piece of legislation to bring the semiconductor industry here. And you've Irreparably harmed that by attacking the CHIPS act and by also imposing tariffs which harm certain component parts that would also allow us to build some of these semiconductors here as well. Then Donald Trump posts this at 12:15am It's a list that says, if Kamala had won, here's what would have happened. So just think about it. As Donald Trump has been thoroughly defeated, as Donald Trump has been demonstrated to be as weak as everybody thought he was. And here's what he's posting. If Kamala had won, everybody. Kamala's in his head. Millions more illegals over the border, billions more in health and welfare fraud, criminals. Release speech controls, everybody. Ah, speech controls, gun restrictions, more trans propaganda in our schools, reparations. Gasoline at $10 per gallon. So Trump saying, even though right now you're probably paying $6 a gallon, it would have been much worse under a hypothetical scenario if former Vice President Kamala Harris won. No, let me tell you what would have happened. ID it. If former Vice President Kamala Harris won, we would probably have a booming manufacturing job market right now because she would have continued what was happening towards the end of former President Biden's presidency. I know you talk about your stock markets. Yeah. The stock markets would have been booming, far higher than they are now. It wouldn't even been close. You would have had interest rates reduced because she wouldn't have done tariffs against the world. She would have had a compassionate immigrant policy that probably had a pay pathway to citizenship for people who were here working and paying taxes who met certain criteria while making sure that people who were here in committing crimes or engaged in unlawful acts were deported. You were the one, Donald, who destroyed the comprehensive immigration bill that could have actually resulted in a great deal of benefit and compassion and growth for our economy. So just think about how desperate and pathetic you are that you're aboard Air Force One that's been given to you by the Qataris. You're flying back from France after the most humiliating G7. You just signed an MOU in Farsi, I might add, because of course, we all know that Donald Trump speaks Farsi. Did you all know that the MoU here's Iranian President possession? He's holding it up. Look at it. Zoom in. It's Farsi. Donald Trump. And just so you see what the White House posted. So you see, it's like, well, Ben, maybe that was a different version. No, no, this is from the White House account. Donald Trump signed the agreement in Farsi. And, you know, my own personal view is I actually think that Signing this surrender was the only deal you fix, you break it, you fix it. And so I'm actually glad we entered into a deal. The American people should never have had to bear and will continue to bear the consequences of Donald Trump's reckless, irresponsible, malicious and war criminal behavior with Netanyahu. But we need to get out of there and we need to focus on America. Getting American people healthcare, making sure Americans can afford homes, making sure Americans get jobs. That's what we need to be focused on right now. But Donald Trump, again, so utterly weak and pathetic. Susie Wiles, Donald Trump's handler, I mean, Chief of Staff, posts like. She posts this as though like they just got back from like a Carnival cruise trip. There has been so many memorable moments and days and accomplishments at the G7. The G7 was a huge success. An opportunity to make sure that members and other participants see America first. We had a great time. It's like a, like I tell you, like a Carnival cruise post. After we had a great time. We loved the buffet. It was quite amazing. We got to experience a great, great deal together. The trip was capped off with a beautiful dinner and birthday celebration for Donald Trump at Versailles. Yes, the location where Germany signed the Treaty of Versailles in 1919 and surrendered in World War I. That's where you sign the Memorandum of Understanding. It was truly spectacular. A golden palace, right? I mean, we all know that Donald Trump loves golden palaces, particularly after his blistering schedule of bilateral and other meetings and working sessions. Nobody works harder than Donald. Now, Trump signed the MoU at dinner while the next 60 days present challenges and important details are worked out. Signing was a great step forward for America, folks. These are truly the most pathetic human beings. Put your politics aside. These are the most pathetic human beings. Rubio to what was going on? Did you see Rubio's face during this thing? Rubio understood the gravity of what the hell was happening here. Play this clip this way.

[Scott]

If it works out, I'm going to take the credit. If it doesn't work out, I'm blaming jd. You better be careful, jd. He's going to turn his plane around and get the hell out of here. Yeah, I like that idea. I think it's a good idea.

[Ben]

And the reality is, is that Donald Trump admitted before leaving that he was checkmated.

[Scott]

Right.

[Ben]

Trump made the admission and said, had we not entered into this MoU, there would have been a global depression. He said the oil reserves were about to run out in just a few weeks. Remember, that's what I've Been saying on the Midas Touch Network, and a lot of people were saying, oh, Ben, you're being hyperbolic. And I said, yeah, we're probably about a week and a half away from a global economic depress. Depression was what I was predicting. And Donald Trump literally says what I've been saying, which is, I'm not sure if it's a good thing, but he admits it. Here, play this clip.

[Scott]

So the one thing I didn't want to see is I didn't want to see economic catastrophe. If you kept this going, that could have happened. But all I know is every time we talked about the possibility of peace, the stock market shot up like a rocket ship. It never went down. They didn't like it. The people you know, the stock market is more brilliant than anybody there is, including the people on this stage other than me, of course. Let's see. I don't know. What do you think, Scott? Is the stock market more brilliant than you?

[Ben]

No, sir.

[Scott]

Oh, that's. That's a terrible statement. All right. The stock market is quite brilliant. And every time we said something amazing like we're going to settle, it would go up. And every time we said something negative like, guess what? We're not going to be able to settle, it would go down very big, Peter. Very, very big. Tells you something.

[Ben]

That's the wonderful trip, Susie Wiles. A beautiful trip with a blistering schedule. And this was as Donald Trump was leaving Versailles. He's leaving Versailles, thinking about golden ballrooms, chamfer arches, Versailles. What did Jared Kushner say? We were leaving Montenegro and we were heading to Ditto. And we saw this island in Albania. We're like, we have to have this island. And then Ivanka was like, yes, Chad, we need this island. Did we discover it? Okay, I digress. Right there. Anyway, Donald Trump is leaving. Donald Trump is leaving Versailles, and he gets really weird with Bridgette Macron, and he goes in for, like, a double kiss. And she likes. Pulls away. I'll just show you what happens here. Let's play this clip.

[Scott]

We're necessarily positive.

[Ben]

I saw the Canadian leader come out and say he liked it.

[Scott]

Would it?

[Ben]

Have you heard anything from our allies? Yep. And so, as the main wonk says, it's the most destructive and weak America foreign policy in history. Surrender to the Taliban, surrender to Iran, bend the knee to Russia, bend the knee to China, attack NATO, weaken alliances, threatened to invade Greenland, although Greenland's probably like, invade us if we can get such a good deal. Threaten to invade Canada, pretend to end eight wars Demand you get a FIFA peace prize and you lost the one war that you started. Remember when Donald Trump Posted back on July 16th, 2015 no deal is better than a bad deal. America out negotiated again. Or November 24, 2013 what a rotten deal we made with Iran. We get nothing except laughter and stupidity. They get everything including delay and big cash. Not really sure what my accent was even intending to be there. But you know I could show you 10,000 posts of Donald Trump because Donald Trump isn't a builder, he is a destroyer. He's not a deal maker. He is a deal breaker. He is a contract breacher. He doesn't honor anything. He has no honor. He's a fraud, a con artist. Just a pathetic, vile, weak piece of trash that will be his legacy forever staining the United States of America with his orange. I don't even want to say it. Remember Don Jr Biden is so desperate for a deal, he's trying to hand billions to Iran to remove the regime terrorists. This was posted on the Ayatollah's website. I guess we should expect nothing less from the terrorist regime. My father had Iran. My daddy. My daddy had Iran almost bankrupt. But then Biden and Harris gave him billions making it a far more dangerous Enough. It's like a loser family. This is a family of pathetic fricking losers. Don Jr. Woke won't win wars. Ask yourself, do you really trust guys like weirdo Walls to deal with our biggest adversaries like Iran? Plus, if Walls is willing to lie about his service record, what else is he willing to lie about? Your dad was a draft dodger who said our veterans are suckers and losers. And this is what Don Jr. Was posting August of 2024. He goes, this is January 29, 2024. How many more Iran funded terror hits will happen with the $6 billion that Joe Biden gave them? How many more great Patriot soldiers killed? He doesn't care about patriots, this or that or the other. This is what they do. They are frauds. This is what they do. They fear monger and they are a bunch of damn losers. And when they're in power, you're seeing what losers they are. I'll show you though, who's not a loser. Someone who's on what I think is a short list of people who may become the next President of the United States. Senator Ossoff, we caught up with him. Here's what he told our reporters on Capitol Hill.

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Let's play it real quick. What do you make of Donald Trump's sort of cognitive decline at the G7. He's been saying all kinds of crazy things.

[Ben]

The President has been humiliated on the world stage, and many Americans are increasingly concerned about his stability and his capacity in the office.

[Scott]

It's.

[Ben]

Deeply distressing to Americans across the political spectrum to see a president so incompetent and so incapable attempting and failing to represent the nation internationally.

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[Ben]

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